EP2986540B1 - Verpackungsverfahren und maschine zur herstellung einer zigarettenpackung mit abstandshalter innerhalb der gruppe von zigaretten - Google Patents

Verpackungsverfahren und maschine zur herstellung einer zigarettenpackung mit abstandshalter innerhalb der gruppe von zigaretten Download PDF

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EP2986540B1
EP2986540B1 EP14731359.7A EP14731359A EP2986540B1 EP 2986540 B1 EP2986540 B1 EP 2986540B1 EP 14731359 A EP14731359 A EP 14731359A EP 2986540 B1 EP2986540 B1 EP 2986540B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • B65D85/1009—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes provided with proffering means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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    • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • B65D85/1081—Inserts or accessories added or joined to the container, e.g. coins, pens, cards, spacers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers

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  • the present invention relates to a packing method and machine for producing a packet of cigarettes according to the preamble of claims 1,2 respectively.
  • a rigid, hinged-lid packet of cigarettes normally comprises an inner package enclosing a group of cigarettes; and a rigid outer container housing the inner package.
  • the inner package is initially fully closed, and has a pull-off top portion which is removed the first time the packet is opened, to enable withdrawal of the cigarettes from the inner package.
  • a filter-tipped cigarette comprises a tobacco portion with an inner end and an outer end; and a filter which is fitted end-to-end to the inner end of the tobacco portion, and is secured to it by a band wound around the filter and around part of the tobacco portion.
  • filters are made of 10-35 mm long cylindrical portions of cellulose acetate, with a 4-9 mm diameter, identical to that of the corresponding tobacco portion. And the band wound about the filter also covers a 2-3 mm long portion of the tobacco portion.
  • the inner package and the outer container often exert a certain amount of lateral compression on the group of cigarettes inside the inner package.
  • the lateral compression exerted by the inner package and outer container on the group of cigarettes may be severe enough to make it difficult to withdraw the first cigarette from the group, due to friction between the first and adjacent cigarettes.
  • Patent Application US5433318A1 describes a packet of cigarettes comprising: a two-row group of cigarettes; a package enclosing the group of cigarettes; and a spacer fitted to the group of cigarettes and interposed between, to separate, the two rows of cigarettes.
  • Patent Application GB516097A describes a cigarette packing machine, in which a group of cigarettes, as soon as it is withdrawn from a hopper, is divided in the middle into two halves, between which a spacer, formed by folding a flat blank, is inserted.
  • Packet 1 of cigarettes comprises a cup-shaped, hinged-lid, cardboard outer container 2 which houses an inner package 3 (shown partly in Figure 2 ).
  • inner package 3 encloses a parallelepiped-shaped group 4 of cigarettes.
  • Group 4 of cigarettes comprises two rows 5 of cigarettes; and a spacer 6 fitted to group 4 of cigarettes and interposed between, to separate, the two rows 5 of cigarettes.
  • Spacer 6 is inserted between the two rows 5 of cigarettes to space rows 5 apart, and so make it much easier to grip and withdraw the cigarettes from group 4, by virtue of rows 5 of cigarettes contacting spacer 6, as opposed to being pressed contacting each other.
  • spacer 6 is shorter than the cigarettes in group 4, and is positioned a given distance D from a top portion of inner package 3, through which the cigarettes are withdrawn from inner package 3.
  • the tops of the cigarettes (typically the filters) that are gripped with the fingers to withdraw the cigarettes from inner package 3 are completely free inwardly, i.e. in the top centre portion of group 4 of cigarettes, a cavity as deep as given distance D is formed, thus making it much easier to grip (with the thumb and fingers) the tops of the cigarettes (typically the filters) to withdraw the cigarettes from inner package 3.
  • spacer 6 is in the form of a box (i.e. hollow) body.
  • spacer 6 may be in the form of a solid (i.e. non-hollow) body, possibly made of sponge material, solid foam material (e.g. polystyrene foam) or similar.
  • Spacer 6 may even be in the form of a piece of corrugated cardboard, a piece of pleated thin cardboard, or an insert of deformed plastic material.
  • Spacer 6 has a top end 7, which must be located facing the filters of the cigarettes in rows 5 - and not the tobacco portions underneath, which, being more fragile than the filters, could be damaged - so given distance D is less than the length of the filters.
  • distance D between the top portion of inner package 3 and the top end 7 of spacer 6, to enable the cigarettes to be gripped with the fingers ranges between 50% and 80% of the length of the filters, i.e. between 5 mm and 28 mm, and preferably ranges between 8 mm and 15 mm.
  • spacer 6 is parallelepiped-shaped, and has an open top end 7 facing a top portion of inner package 3, through which the cigarettes are withdrawn from inner package 3.
  • Spacer 6 also has a bottom wall opposite open top end 7; two opposite parallel major lateral walls which rest against the cigarettes in the two rows 5; and two opposite parallel minor lateral walls which rest against the corresponding minor lateral walls of inner package 3.
  • spacer 6 may also be used as a container, either for items inserted when producing packet 1 of cigarettes (e.g. a free gift inside packet 1 of cigarettes), or for items inserted later, after packet 1 of cigarettes is opened (e.g. a lighter or, when necessary, cigarette ash or stubs).
  • spacer 6 may be closed on all sides, i.e. may have a top wall opposite and parallel to the bottom wall and closing open top end 7 (in this case, too, spacer 6 may be used as a container for a free gift inside packet 1 of cigarettes, and which is accessed by tearing open spacer 6).
  • spacer 6 is formed by folding and gluing a flat blank 8.
  • Figure 8 shows a spread-out blank 8 from which to form a spacer 6 closed on all sides ( Figure 8 clearly shows all the walls of spacer 6).
  • group 4 of cigarettes comprises two rows 5 of cigarettes, between which spacer 6 is inserted.
  • group 4 of cigarettes may comprise three rows 5, between which one spacer 6 is inserted (i.e. between one row 5 and two contiguous rows 5 of cigarettes), or between which two separate spacers 6 are inserted, each between two adjacent rows 5 of cigarettes.
  • group 4 of cigarettes may comprise a number of rows 5 of cigarettes alternating with one or more spacers 6.
  • spacer 6 is fixed to inner package 3 by spots or coatings of cold glue, or, preferably, flat blank 8 may have areas gummed with hotmelt adhesive, to avoid even only partly extracting spacer 6 together with the first cigarette, due to friction in the full group 4 of cigarettes.
  • the parallelepiped-shaped spacer 6 is fixed to the bottom end and/or to at least one minor lateral wall of inner package 3.
  • Figure 9 shows a schematic of a packing machine 9 for producing packet 1 of cigarettes described above.
  • packing machine 9 comprises a folding unit 10 for forming spacer 6 by folding and gluing a corresponding blank 8; a group-forming unit 11 for forming group 4 of cigarettes; and a packing unit 12 for forming inner package 3 by folding a sheet of soft packing material about group 4 of cigarettes, and then forming outer container 2 by folding a rigid blank about inner package 3.
  • folding unit 10 corrugates a piece of cardboard or pleats a piece of thin cardboard to form spacer 6.
  • group-forming unit 11 comprises a group-forming belt conveyor 13 supporting a number of group-forming pockets 14, each for receiving and conveying a respective group 4 of cigarettes.
  • Group-forming conveyor 13 moves anticlockwise in steps to feed each group-forming pocket 14 along a straight group-forming path P.
  • Two cigarette hoppers 15 and a spacer hopper 16, located between cigarette hoppers 15, are located along group-forming path P.
  • Each cigarette hopper 15 comprises three identical outlets in series along group-forming path P.
  • cigarette hoppers 15 share the same feed source, i.e. are both fed with cigarettes from one top container 17.
  • each cigarette hopper 15 comprises two outlets in series along group-forming path P, or only one outlet.
  • spacer hopper 16 comprises three identical outlets in series along group-forming path P.
  • spacer hopper 16 comprises two outlets in series along group-forming path P, or only one outlet. It is important to note that spacer hopper 16 may have a different number of outlets from cigarette hoppers 15.
  • straight group-forming path P extends successively past hoppers 15 and 16.
  • Group-forming unit 11 comprises a number of transfer members 18, each fitted to a corresponding outlet of a cigarette hopper 15.
  • the corresponding transfer member 18 expels a row 5 of cigarettes from the outlet into group-forming pocket 14.
  • Group-forming unit 11 comprises a number of transfer members 19, each fitted to a corresponding outlet of spacer hopper 16.
  • the corresponding transfer member 19 expels a spacer 6 from the outlet into group-forming pocket 14.
  • Spacer 6 has a bottom end facing a bottom portion of inner package 3, opposite the top portion through which the cigarettes are withdrawn from inner package 3. More specifically, the bottom end of spacer 6 is closed and is designed to be engaged by transfer member 19 of group-forming unit 11, i.e. flat blank 8 has a panel at said bottom end.
  • each group 4 of cigarettes is formed in layers inside a respective group-forming pocket 14, i.e. by first inserting a row 5 of cigarettes, then a spacer 6, and finally another row 5 of cigarettes into group-forming pocket 14.
  • folding unit 10 forms spacers 6 by folding blanks 8 in known manner about tubular folding spindles, and then feeds spacers 6 to spacer hopper 16. Once a group 4 of cigarettes is formed on group-forming unit 11, it is transferred from group-forming unit 11 to packing unit 12 to form a corresponding packet 1 of cigarettes in known manner.
  • packet 1 of cigarettes described permits easy withdrawal of the cigarettes from inner package 3, by virtue of the tops (typically the filters) - which are gripped by the fingers - of the cigarettes in each row 5 being completely free inwards, and therefore easily gripped with the fingers to withdraw the cigarettes from inner package 3.
  • the tops typically the filters
  • packet 1 of cigarettes described can be produced easily on a substantially standard packing machine (requiring only a few minor alterations) as opposed to requiring a high-cost special-purpose packing machine (i.e. specially designed for this type of packet 1 of cigarettes).

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  1. Verpackungsverfahren zur Herstellung einer Zigarettenverpackung (1), die umfasst: eine Gruppe (4) von Zigaretten mit wenigstens zwei Reihen (5) von Zigaretten; und eine Innenverpackung (3), die die Gruppe (4) von Zigaretten umschließt; wobei das Verpackungsverfahren die folgenden Schritte umfasst:
    Zuführen eines gruppenbildenden Fachs (14), das konzipiert ist, um die Gruppe (4) von Zigaretten aufzunehmen, entlang eines Gruppenbildungswegs (P), der sich über eine Abfolge erster Zigarettenschächte (15) hinaus erstreckt;
    Ausbilden der Gruppe (4) von Zigaretten durch Auswerfen jeder Reihe (5) von Zigaretten aus einem entsprechenden ersten Schacht (15) in das gruppenbildende Fach (14); und
    Falten eines Bogens aus Verpackungsmaterial um die Gruppe (4) von Zigaretten, um die Innenverpackung (3), die die Gruppe (4) von Zigaretten umschließt, zu bilden;
    wobei das Verpackungsverfahren dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass:
    ein zweiter Schacht (16) entlang des Gruppenbildungswegs (P) zwischen zwei ersten Schächten (15) angeordnet ist und einen Abstandshalter (6) enthält, der dazwischen eingefügt ist, um zwei Reihen (5) von Zigaretten zu trennen; und
    der Abstandshalter (6) von dem zweiten Schacht (16) zu dem gruppenausbildenden Fach (14) überführt wird, indem zuerst eine Reihe (5) von Zigaretten, dann der Abstandshalter (6) und schließlich die andere Reihe (5) von Zigaretten in das gruppenbildende Fach (14) zugeführt werden.
  2. Verpackungsmaschine (9) zur Herstellung einer Zigarettenverpackung (1), die umfasst: eine Gruppe (4) von Zigaretten mit wenigstens zwei Reihen (5) von Zigaretten; und eine Innenverpackung (3), die die Gruppe (4) von Zigaretten umschließt; wobei die Verpackungsmaschine (9) umfasst:
    eine Abfolge erster Zigarettenschächte (15);
    ein gruppenbildendes Fach (14) zum Aufnehmen der Gruppe (4) von Zigaretten;
    einen gruppenbildenden Förderer (13) zum Zuführen des gruppenbildenden Fachs (14) entlang eines Gruppenbildungswegs (P), der sich über die Abfolge erster Schächte (15) hinaus erstreckt;
    erste Überführungselemente (18) zum Ausbilden der Gruppe (4) von Zigaretten durch Auswerfen jeder Reihe (5) von Zigaretten aus einem entsprechenden ersten Schacht (15) in das gruppenbildende Fach (14); und
    eine Verpackungseinheit (12) zum Falten eines Bogens von Verpackungsmaterial um die Gruppe (4) von Zigaretten, um die Innenverpackung (3), die die Gruppe (4) von Zigaretten umschließt, auszubilden;
    wobei die Verpackungsmaschine (9) dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass sie umfasst:
    einen zweiten Schacht (16), der entlang des Gruppenbildungswegs (P) zwischen zwei ersten Schächten (15) angeordnet ist und einen Abstandshalter (6) enthält, der dazwischen eingefügt ist, um zwei Reihen (5) von Zigaretten zu trennen; und
    zweite Überführungselemente (19) zum Überführen des Abstandshalters (6) von dem zweiten Schacht (16) zu dem gruppenausbildenden Fach (14), indem zuerst eine Reihe (5) von Zigaretten, dann der Abstandshalter (6) und schließlich die andere Reihe (5) von Zigaretten in das gruppenbildende Fach (14) zugeführt werden.
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